He said: “This is the guerilla operation towards a more planned project we have been working on.

“We got a bit impatient because we wanted to do something and then I was walking my dog past that building and saw someone locking it up, so I asked if he would mind me painting the wall and he agreed.”

The mural has certainly divided opinion, with some dubbing it just plain graffiti while others praise it for using an empty run down building in a creative way – just take a look at the comments on lep.co.uk.

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